The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
A new global warming offender: Dam drawdowns
http://www.petridishnews.com/news/a-new-global-warming-offender-dam-drawdowns/
I wonder how this changes the proportion of CO2 to methane that otherwise would have happened without the dam. The vast majority of biological material is recycled, most of it on an …
How Bias Heats Up the Warming Debate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444405804577558973445002552.html
Yes, it is the WSJ and yes it can be easily interpreted as ‘anti-global warming’, but I think the article has a great deal to offer. As I have lamented many times …
NASA: Strange and sudden massive melt in Greenland
The abnormally warm weather is causing meltdowns even in Greenland’s highest and coldest places
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/nasa_strange_and_sudden_massive_melt_in_greenland/
I read this yesterday but wasn’t motivated to post at the time. To me this is just …
A wee bit of a follow-up for my earlier post on the storm. Maybe I have got soft from all this computer work, but I recall working in upper 80’s and even low 90’s before (though I think I …
Man, we keep having these once-a-century events on the heels of one another! I am wondering, now, if in the past the once-a-century events did indeed all happen in the same decade in the days of yore. Maybe the wild …
We’ve been brainwashed
It’s no accident that Americans widely underestimate inequality. The rich prefer it that way
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/14/weve_been_brainwashed/
Flippant title aside, this is an interesting article and I will slide in some quotes to try to motivate you to read …
Just not in the ways that the headlines scream…
Natural sinks still sopping up carbon
Ecosystems haven’t maxed out ability to absorb fossil fuel emissions
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/340710/title/Natural_sinks_still_sopping_up_carbon
I have seen a lot of research on coral bleaching and other signs of …
6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america.html
This was quite interesting to me and significantly contrary to what we were all taught in school. Not that I am amazed that school teaches crap, rather the opposite, …
The Next Yellowstone Supereruption Is Closer Than You Think
http://gizmodo.com/5906622/the-yellowstone-supereruption-is-closer-than-you-think/
For those of you who don’t know, we have here in the US heartland one of the most dangerous types of volcanoes on this planet. It is the Yellowstone ‘super’ …
OK, nothing has grabbed me today but in an effort to reward (punish?) those loyal reader(s) I figured I would spew some random thoughts in an attempt at being interesting and/or entertaining enough to justify your visits.
The US continuing …